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The Baltimore Catechism No. 1
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      • Lesson 1: On The End of Man
      • Lesson 2: On God & His Perfections
      • Lesson 3: On The Unity & Trinity of God
      • Lesson 4: On The Angels & Our First Parents
      • Lesson 5: On Sin & Its Kind
      • Lesson 6: On The Incarnation & Redemption
      • Lesson 7: On Our Lord's Passion, Death, Resurrection, & Ascension
      • Lesson 8: On The Holy Ghost & His Decent Upon The Apostles
      • Lesson 9: On The Effects Of The Redemption
      • Lesson 10: On The Church
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      • Lesson 11: On The Sacrements In General
      • Lesson 12: On Baptism
      • Lesson 13: On Confirmation
      • Lesson 14: On The Sacrement of Penance
      • Lesson 15: On Contrition
      • Lesson 16: On Confession
      • Lesson 17: On Indulgence
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        Lesson 18: On The Holy Eucharist
      • Lesson 19: On The Ends For Which The Holy Eucharist was Institued
      • Lesson 20: On The Sacrifice Of The Mass
      • Lesson 21: On Extreme Unction & Holy Orders
      • Lesson 22: On Matrimony
      • Lesson 23: On The Sacramentals
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      • Lesson 24: On Prayer
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Lesson 18: On The Holy Eucharist
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Lesson 18: On The Holy Eucharist

Q. 238. What is the Holy Eucharist?


A. The Holy Eucharist is the Sacrament which contains the body and blood, soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread and wine.

Q. 245. What do you mean by the appearances of bread and wine?


A. By the appearances of bread and wine I mean the figure, the color, the taste, and whatever appears to the senses.

Q. 249. When did Christ give His priests the power to change bread and wine into His body and blood?


A. Christ gave His priests the power to change bread and wine into His body and blood when He said to the Apostles, Do this for a commemoration of Me.

Q. 250. How do the priests exercise this power of changing bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ?


A. The priests exercise this power of changing bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ through the words of consecration in the Mass, which are the words of Christ: This is My body; this is My blood.
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